Summary:
Essay describes the aspect of the character of Cathy's selfish love in the novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
In the book Wuthering Heights, Catherine Earnshaw's love is selfish and only concerned with her own feelings. If Catherine's love was unselfish, she would have wanted to marry for love alone. Yet as she was telling Ellen Dean of Edgar Linton's marriage proposal, Catherine made it obvious she did not want to marry for love. Instead, Catherine says she wanted to marry Edgar for money and popularity: "'and [Edgar] will be rich, and I shall be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband'" (p. 80). Catherine's love was also selfish.....
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